And Lĕ’ah’s eyes were weak, but Raḥĕl was beautiful of form and beautiful of appearance.
Genesis 29:30 - The Scriptures 2009 And he also went in to Raḥĕl, and he also loved Raḥĕl more than Lĕ’ah. And he served with Laḇan still another seven years. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And Jacob lived with Rachel also as his wife, and he loved Rachel more than Leah and served [Laban] another seven years [for her]. American Standard Version (1901) And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years. Common English Bible Jacob slept with Rachel, and he loved Rachel more than Leah. He worked for Laban seven more years. Catholic Public Domain Version And, having at last obtained the marriage he desired, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and he served with him another seven years. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And having at length obtained the marriage he wished for, he preferred the love of the latter before the former, and served with him other seven years. |
And Lĕ’ah’s eyes were weak, but Raḥĕl was beautiful of form and beautiful of appearance.
And Ya‛aqoḇ loved Raḥĕl, so he said, “Let me serve you seven years for Raḥĕl your younger daughter.”
So Ya‛aqoḇ served seven years for Raḥĕl, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
And Laḇan gave his female servant Bilhah to his daughter Raḥĕl as a female servant.
And יהוה saw that Lĕ’ah was unloved, and He opened her womb, but Raḥĕl was barren.
“Are we not reckoned by him as strangers? For he has sold us, and also entirely consumed our silver.
“These twenty years I have been in your house. I served you fourteen years for your two daughters, and six years for your flock, and you have changed my wages ten times.
And we said to my master, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a young child of his old age, and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother’s children, and his father loves him.’ ”
“Then your servant my father said to us, ‘You know that my wife bore me two sons,
And when Ya‛aqoḇ fled to the country of Aram, Yisra’ĕl served for a wife, and for a wife he kept watch.
“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me, and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
No one is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cleave to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.
If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and his own life too, he is unable to be My taught one.
“He who loves his life shall lose it, and he who hates his life in this world shall preserve it for everlasting life.
When a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and the first-born son is of her who is unloved,”